Changed page "howto/InstallingOlderPort" by ryandesign@macports.org from 70.253.92.86* Page URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort> Diff URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort?action=diff&version=12> Revision 12 Comment: remove references to +darwin_9; MacPorts no longer records platform variants this way -------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<-------- Index: howto/InstallingOlderPort ========================================================================= --- howto/InstallingOlderPort (version: 11) +++ howto/InstallingOlderPort (version: 12) @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ {{{ $ port installed tcl The following ports are currently installed: - tcl @8.4.16_0+darwin_9 (active) + tcl @8.4.16_0(active) $ sudo port upgrade tcl [snip] $ port installed tcl The following ports are currently installed: - tcl @8.4.16_0+darwin_9 + tcl @8.4.16_0 tcl @8.5.0_0 (active) $ }}} @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ If you later discover you would like to go back to the older version, you can activate it, which will automatically deactivate the active version first: {{{ -$ sudo port activate tcl @8.4.16_0+darwin_9 +$ sudo port activate tcl @8.4.16_0 ---> Deactivating tcl @8.5.0_0 ----> Activating tcl @8.4.16_0+darwin_9 +---> Activating tcl @8.4.16_0 $ }}} Once you're confident the new version works to your satisfaction, you can uninstall the old one to reclaim disk space: {{{ -$ sudo port uninstall tcl @8.4.16_0+darwin_9 +$ sudo port uninstall tcl @8.4.16_0 }}} If you want to go back to an older version after you've already uninstalled it, or to an older version than you've ever had installed, you can do so by manually downloading the older version of the portfile from the Subversion repository. -------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<-------- * The IP shown here might not mean anything if the user or the server is behind a proxy. -- MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS This is an automated message. Someone at http://www.macports.org/ added your email address to be notified of changes on howto/InstallingOlderPort. If it was not you, please report to .